Yesterday, we spoke with Jeff Edlund, CTO for the Communications & Media Solutions industry about the five megatrends facing Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Jeff took us through the first three: big data and analytics, globalization, and social media and communications. We’re continuing to explore the implications of that third megatrend, as well as move on to the fourth and fifth megatrends, today.

The Communication Service Provider (CSP) industry segment has been in the spotlight this week at the HP Discover Conference in Frankfurt and in a series of our corporate announcements. Yesterday, we announced the new HP Telco Big Data and Analytics services, which support CSPs’ ability to transform the data collected from a variety of sources into actionable intelligence. Today, we announced the HP Cloud Solutions for CSPs, which help CSPs harness the cloud to implement new revenue opportunities, accelerate delivery of new services to their business customers and achieve higher retention rates among subscribers.

To better understand what CSPs are facing at the macro level, how their challenges will evolve over time, and what HP is doing to help them meet those challenges, we interviewed Jeff Edlund, HP CTO, Communications & Media Solutions. This is the first of a two-part series. We will conclude the interview tomorrow.

Here at HP, we have been focusing a lot of our attention this week on the Communication Service Provider (CSP) industry segment. Yesterday, we announced the new HP Telco Big Data and Analytics services, which support CSPs’ ability to transform the data collected from a variety of sources into actionable intelligence.

Today, during the HP Discover Conference at Frankfurt, we announced the HP Cloud Solutions for CSPs. These offerings help CSPs harness the cloud to identify new revenue opportunities, accelerate delivery of new services to their business customers and achieve higher retention rates among subscribers. Building on the HP Converged Cloud portfolio, the new solutions and services enable CSPs to build, manage and monetize their public cloud environment.

To delve a bit deeper into this announcement and what it really means for CSPs, I interviewed Michel Ferachoglou, Applications and Cloud Enablement Marketing Lead with HP Communications and Media Solutions.